Originally Posted by
Silverbackman
Yea, that is true. Japan really did do a lot of modernizing in Taiwan but I don't think it would have been as great as it would be if it wasn't capitalist.
Another country with a similar situation but more balanced governments was Korea. South Korea is a pretty powerful nation and one of Asia's only developed countries (besides Japan and possibly Taiwan). North Korea on the other hand, well things couldn't be worse!
Mao's "Great Leap Forward" policy did far worse than anything a Nationalist party of any country would do. The Nationalists weren't the greatest either but many
Nationalists had plans to establish a republic obviously. And there were no planned purges under the Nationalists Party either.
How much do you all think the culture of Chinese would have been if the Nationalists Party took over? I pretty sure it would have been more preserved.
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